The Homecoming (2012)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | the return home |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jo Baier |
| script | Jo Baier |
| production |
Manfred Hattendorf Anna Oeller Michael Schmidl |
| music |
Jörg Lemberg Udo Lindenberg |
| camera | Wedigo von Schultzendorff |
| cut | Claus Wehlisch |
| occupation | |
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The Homecoming is a German-Austrian television film from 2012 . The film adaptation of the literature is based on the story of the same name by Hermann Hesse .
action
After three decades as an entrepreneur in America and Russia , the wealthy August Staudenmeyer returns to his hometown Gerbersau. He is received with open arms. However, when he campaigned for the local widow Katharina Entriß, he himself was sidelined. He senses that the tannery's behavior has not really changed since his first departure. After much back and forth, additional experiences and a new love, he decides to leave his home country a second time.
background
The film was shot in August and September 2011 in Schwäbisch Gmünd, Wackershofen, Maselheim, Neudenau and Schwäbisch Hall. The German first broadcast was on May 2, 2012 on ARD . It was seen by 4.63 million viewers, which corresponded to a market share of 15.4 percent.
Since Hesse did not believe in film adaptations, he had his heirs obligated in his will that one of his novels would never be made into a film. The film is the first German television adaptation of one of his subjects.
Reviews
"Sensitive (TV) film adaptation of the eponymous story by Hermann Hesse about two outsiders who resolutely draw the conclusion from their situation."
"In a harmonious historical ambience, with successful pictures and an excellent cast, Baier staged a socially critical drama against narrow-mindedness, a topic that is always topical."
"But" The Homecoming "is not a successful production, but a mass homage with audience favorites from public television. [...] If you watch the film like that, then you can understand Hesse's doubts about the art of film. The homecoming is exactly as critics scold his books: leisurely, eichendorff good, clumsy. […] Only Heike Makatsch as a hostile and much sought-after widow is surprisingly a joy in all the popular theater. The village is an open-air museum, the children run around barefoot, the whole pietism, the zeal for order, the dark narrowness - everything is filmed but not based on its tradition. Poor Hesse. At first he was despised - and now he is so honored. "
“There is not just a little about this television festival that is fabulous. How Baier and his cameraman Wedigo von Schultzendorff re-enact and capture a small-town scene at the beginning of the twentieth century, how they play with light and shadow, with water and clouds, how they stage the low rooms and thus bourgeois confinement: it has glamor and format. And the details are impressive. [...] This is a film adaptation 'based on Hermann Hesse'. In the case of Baier's 'Homecoming' this means that ultimately the story is staged against the author, against the spirit and the atmosphere. Exactly what Hesse once feared occurs: He is 'exploited by another art with its means'. "
Book edition
Hesse's story was first printed in the Neue Rundschau in 1909 , then published in 1912 in the book of stories Umwege and later in numerous individual and collective editions. The following special edition was published in paperback for the film:
- The homecoming . Suhrkamp , Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-518-46334-5 .
Web links
- The Homecoming in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The homecoming from the SWR
- The homecoming at ARD
Individual evidence
- ^ Film page from SWR
- ↑ press release of ARD , PDF file, 21 S.
- ↑ Media: TV quota victory for “Die Heimkehr”. In: Focus .de
- ↑ a b Barbara Gärtner: ARD filmed the Hesse story “The Homecoming”. Embarrassing raving. In: sueddeutsche.de , May 15, 2012.
- ↑ The homecoming. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The homecoming in Prisma
- ↑ Jochen Hieber : "The homecoming" in the first. The world traveler and the widow. In: FAZ , May 2, 2012